Object-Oriented techniques,together with the UML,have emerged as the standard for modern software design, development and deployment. Consequently all key staff working within these areas need to have some understanding of them. However, not all staff need the same level of detail, nor do they all have the same range of interests.

We provide a suite of UML and OO training courses aimed at these different needs.

For the Project Manager, we offer "UML for Project Managers (057)", a one or two day course showing how the UML is used throughout an OO project and how the project scheduling and planning is supported by the UML. This is linked to estimation techniques and Product Based Planning (as defined within PRINCE2). In fact, as we are PRINCE2 approved, we explain how this technology is used within a PRINCE2 project. For management courses in particular, PRINCE2 context maybe very important for many customers. However, we can also provide PRINCE2 context for most of the courses listed below.

For the Business Analyst, we focus on the use of the UML as a Business Analysis technique and a requirements capture technique, showing how Business Use Cases are related to Requirements, how to produce complete and unambiguous requirements, how to write Business and System Use Cases, and how the Use Cases relate to OO analysis and design. This training is provided by three or four-day courses, see "Requirements with the UML(059)".

For Developers, we provide in-depth end-to-end training across the complete project lifecycle in the use of the UML to provide a path from Requirements Capture and Analysis into Design and Deployment, with three, four or five-day courses "UML for Software Development (021)". These courses cover OO and UML in extensive detail, the longer courses using a variety of Case Studies to provide experience of advanced design and modelling techniques. The longer versions of this course also embed Enterprise Architect as a training vehicle .. see "UML for Software Development using Enterprise Architect (061)"

Since Use Cases are such a fundamental technique (and not necessarily bound to the UML) we provide a course dedicated to the design and production of Use Cases, "Writing and Using Effective Use Cases(073)". Since the audience for Use Cases can be very wide, the audience for this two-day course is also correspondingly wide, ranging from managers to analysts to developers to testers. This is a fundamental course for all staff involved in dealing with requirements and quality. We also provide TopTeam and Visual Use Case training for organisations using these tools for their UML support. Please contact us to discuss these tools within our training courses.

Finally, for those staff that simply need an overview of UML and OO (to what we call a "non-blink" level) we provide a variety of shorter courses and seminars, "Introduction to OO Design and Development"(060)","Overview of OO Analysis, UML and Design(037)" and "Introduction to the UML 2(020)"

The majority of courses are provided for specific "in-house" training. It is quite normal for us to modify these courses to special requirements for a customer, This has included designing a Case Study to reflect the actual industry of the client, including specialised technology (e.g. real-time features), mix'n match content for mixed-skills audiences and so on. If you have specialised training needs please contact us to discuss them. If there are any questions on the content please do not hesitate to ask us.